Bella Kocabiyik

About Bella Kocabiyik

Bella is an International Affairs major with a special interest in Middle East and Northern African studies at Lewis and Clark College '22. Additional interests include journalism and the role of religion in international relations.

Former president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, is due to go to Sudanese trial for corruption charges after being ousted from his presidential role by armed forces after massive civilian protests called for a change in government. The former president is not being tried by the International Criminal Court unless he […]

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Israeli police have cleared Palestinian worshippers from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which overlaps with the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av. Israeli police used tear gas, rubber bullets and sound grenades to clear the Mosque, located in occupied East Jerusalem, a vital […]

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Russian police have detained over 800 protesters demanding free elections in Moscow. The protesters gathered in Pushkin Square with the intent to protests to rally against the exclusion of opposition candidates from the Moscow city council election, however, they were met by massive police forces, who began arresting protesters before […]

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Iran has warned the U.K. of rising tensions between the two countries after Iranian forces seized a British oil tanker. The British oil ship was seized in the Strait of Hormuz by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and is largely seen as a reaction to Britain seizing an Iranian ship two […]

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech today that Iran is ready for talks with the U.S. in regards to their nuclear development program if sanctions imposed by the Trump administration are lifted. This statement comes after the Trump administration walked away from the Iran nuclear deal in […]

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Sudanese civilians have renewed protests to demand civilian rule in the country, which is currently ruled by the military after the ousting of President Bashir. Thousands have poured onto the streets in the capital as well as other major cities in an attempt to pressure the current government to hand […]

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Yemen’s Houthis hit a Saudi Arabian airport, killing one and wounding 21 others. According to Houthi-run news channel Al-Masirah TV, the attack occurred in Abha airport in Saudi Arabia and was the target of a Yemeni Houthi drone attack. The attack is among a long list of violent Yemeni-Saudi interactions […]

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Muslim people in Sri Lanka are being targeted with arbitrary arrests after the Easter Church attacks in the country in April. The Easter massacres, claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were a series of suicide bomb attacks targeted at churches and hotels on Easter Sunday, […]

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The Sudanese Military has publicly blamed civilian protesters for the deadly military crackdown that resulted in the murders of dozens of civilians in a protest camp. The Sudanese military claims that the protestors committed crimes by closing off roads and creating barricades, and that the protestors […]